Proverbs 25:5-9

⁵Do thou away unpiety from the cheer of the king (or Take thou away wicked persons from before the king), and his throne shall be made steadfast by rightfulness.

⁶Appear thou not glorious before the king, and stand thou not in the place of great men.

⁷For it is better, that it be said to thee, Ascend thou hither (or Come thou up here), than that thou be made low before the prince.

⁸Bring thou not forth soon those things in strife, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou mayest not amend, when thou hast made thy friend unhonest. (Bring thou not soon forth those things in strife, or an argument, which thine eyes saw; lest afterward thou cannot correct it, when thou hast dishonoured thy friend.)

⁹Treat thy cause with thy friend, and show thou not (a) private (matter) to a strange man;